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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Thursday, September 06, 2012

I’ve noticed an annoying problem on all my Windows 7
laptops. After rebooting, and only once
before the next boot, the machine will hesitate about thirty seconds when it
encounters certain kinds of ads on certain sites (especially newspaper sites
and Major League Baseball and, curiously, Suntrust Bank). The machine freezes, and the mouse pointer or
trackpad will not operate. Finally, the machine “releases” (the Dell XPS
laptop, which was converted from Vista, beeps a few times), and goes to a full
link of the unwanted ad.

Tapping the
trackpad will get the machine to release (but using the wireless mouse, an
attachment, will not), but causes a link to the ad, which then fills the screen
as an unwanted visit. The advertiser
will be charged for the ad display by the site, which the user may not have
intended to visit or have a legitimate interest in.

Perhaps there is a problem with the startup procedure in W7,
and the ad is using an application (like some part of Shockwave) that requires
additional memory allocation. Or perhaps it is “unsafe code” (in java or C#) on the site.

This morning, I had the problem with Rosenthal Nissan Honda
when visiting the Washington Post site.
I’ll give the link for the ad, which may cause a Windows 7 machine to
hesitate. This problem does not seem to
happen on my MacBook, mi iPad,or my
smartphone, and it doesn’t happen in the
older XP operation system. Here’s the
link.

I suppose I could get rid of this by playing with the Popup
blocker (in Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer – it happens in all of them
in Windows 7).

The problem does not seem to occur on any ads served by
Google.

Update: September 10, 2012
Today the hang occurred while the Washington Post was open to a complicated page when I went back into Word to copy the URL. Once in Word, the computer would freeze if I tried to use Word. On restart, it gave the usual warning an invitation to use Safe Mode, which can be skipped.

Microsoft Control Center tells me that I need a fix for a Dell memory driver that is used by some media applications. I just installed it. We'll see if this fixes it.

I fixed the Word file by hard-copying to another file with a different name.

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